The Lumineers

Give This a listen, It feels so good.

Ladies and Gentleman, The Lumineers, "Hey Ho"

Italian Greyhound Feature

Isn' this kind. Ashlee Park has a blog on WordPress where she featured one of my paintings. Take a trip to her blog to admire the lovely greyhound and Iggys in art.

 "I Heart Etsy Fridays- Greyhound Love!"

Daughter, You need to know...

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is  compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutual weirdness and call it love.        -Dr. Suess

It really is worth fighting for

being brave for 

risking everything for

I'll stop the world and melt with you

When I saw you I fell in love,

and you smiled because you knew.   -Shakespeare

It didn't work for me, but that doesn't mean that it wasn't worth every minute.

My Funny Valentine

My funny valentine

Sweet comic valentine

You make me smile with my heart

Your looks are laughable, unphotographable

Still your my favorite work of art

Is your figure less than Greek, Is your mouth a little weak

When you open it to speak are you smart

Don't change a hair for me, not if you care for me

Stay my little valentine, stay

Each day is Valentine's Day

Love Inspires

He makes you feel like this

So Dreamy

“For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.” 

Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red

Strange Girl

   We’ve got secrets between us that    Nobody else would believe if we told them    So let the stars align    

   Broken souls will become whole tonight     Would you ever wake at night and realize

The reason why you knew me then    Is maybe I’m an alien too   Would you ever let me be an alien with you

                                                                      Sebastian Pigott lyrics- Alien     

Great Design

If I could afford it I would collect couches the way Katie's nephew collects matchbox cars.

Downloading Music and Contemplating Creativity

I love to share music with Nina. She mostly doesn't like what I share I pretty much love hers. Well, mostly like hers. I thought my taste was diverse and maybe this is one of the things I passed on to my daughter. Her mind is wide open. I might have made a wee mistake introducing her to Tom Waits this Christmas though...I thought she was ready, ha.


This day I'm contemplating creativity. And sometimes all it take is a little bit of music and some words from interesting people to get me motivated.... 

“To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write.” - Robert McKee

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. 
-Albert Einstein

“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.”  

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A person needs a little madness or else they never cut the rope and be free." 
-Nikos Sazantzakis

"An idea can turn to dust or magic....."

"Children reinvent your world for you" -Susan Sarandon

Happy 2012 Our Future Is Bright

   I have four little numbers here picked by my lovely assistant, aka the daughter home from college. They represent the three winners of the cute, smart and versatile little calendar. The fourth is a winner from the full month of December for the Woodwings' charm necklace.
   I just popped in Woody Allen's "Midnight In Paris" so am a bit distracted by the opening screen shots and the melancholy horn. Did you know Woody plays a clarinet.
   Let me tell you the winners, because I'm charmed by the movie and really have to dash :) I wish just one thing, that I could see each of you in your outfits!


   The calendars go to the following.
1 Katina, who will be baptizing her brother's wife-to-be this summer in sumptuous silk shift which I picture dropping off a rack in Paris in the 20's.
2  JHBALVIN who, like me, waits until the last minute to decide on the outfit for her event of the year and still has to buy her red shoes!
3   Aik whose 18th birthday is this month and is wearing a pair of Vincci heels to celebrate, ooo!
The fourth selected is Robin whose wish is for peace and love. I hope you like the necklace Robin and I hope your wish comes true!

Okay girls. It's 2012 and no one can live it for us. So let's get out there and take a chance!